Apple announced this morning it’s bringing a “Everyone Can Code” module to 70 some-more colleges and universities opposite Europe. The program, that Apple designed to assistance students learn how to build apps, launched in May 2017 though was primarily singular to a U.S. before expanding to other markets, including Australia, and name institutions in Europe final November.

The association remarkable some of a participating colleges and universities adding a course, including Harlow College in a U.K. and Mercantec Vocational College in Denmark, both of that have 3,000 students; a Technical University of Munich in Germany; and Hogeschool outpost Arnhem en Nijmegen in a Netherlands, that has 34,000 students.

The march is designed to learn students how to build apps regulating Swift, Apple’s programming denunciation for essay iOS and OS X apps, launched behind in 2014 as a deputy for Objective-C. Since Swift’s arrival, Apple has been heavily pulling several “learn to code” educational initiatives, including an entry-level app for training kids to code, called Swift Playgrounds.

For Apple, it’s vicious to make certain there’s always a new era of developers training a collection and removing prepared to build apps. After all, App Store income is a large cube of Apple’s bottom line, and potentially remunerative for some app publishers, as well.

Apple says that given it launched a App Store in 2008, U.S. developers have warranted over $16 billion in App Store sales worldwide. Globally, that figure tops $70 billion, Apple pronounced final June.

In Europe, Apple currently says a app economy has generated 1.36 million jobs, and Apple has paid out scarcely $18 billion to developers opposite a region.

The app economy isn’t nonetheless stagnating, either. While some categories are flourishing some-more fast than others, a marketplace altogether is still flourishing both in terms of downloads and income opposite all app stores. For example, App Annie recently reported that tellurian mobile app downloads (including other app stores over Apple’s iOS store) topped 175 billion in 2017, and income surpassed $86 billion. It’s projecting consumer spending worldwide to tip $110 billion in 2018.

“Coding is an essential ability for today’s workforce, and by Everyone Can Code, we’re giving people around a universe a energy to learn, write and learn coding,” pronounced Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, in a statement. “Since rising Everyone Can Code dual years ago, we’ve seen flourishing fad for a beginning from schools around a world, who are increasingly incorporating a curriculum into their classrooms.”